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Old Nov 10, 2005, 3:17 am
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Khabibul35
 
Join Date: May 2005
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Newbie Question: Fare Rules/Route Expansion

Now, I'm flying from Boston to San Jose but trying to get the best routing out of it given the Fare Rules

ROUTING 35 FROM BOS-UA-NYC-UA-WAS-
OR FROM BOS-UA-WAS-UA-EWR/NYC-
OR FROM BOS-UA-EWR/NYC-UA-WAS-
OR FROM BOS-UA-CLT-UA-PHL-UA-WAS-
VIA UA-ROC-UA-BUF-UA-CHI-UA-HOU/
SAT/AUS/IND/MLI/TUL/OKC/LNK/ICT/CID/
DFW/COS/MKE/MSN/STL/MKC/DSM/OMA/MSP-
OR VIA UA-ORF/PHF/RDU/GSO/HFD/BDL/
CRW/CAK/RIC/ROA/HAR/ABE/ALB-UA-CHI-UA-
HOU/SAT/AUS/IND/MLI/TUL/OKC/LNK/ICT/
CID/DFW/COS/MKE/MSN/STL/MKC/DSM/OMA/
MSP-
OR VIA UA-PHL-UA-PIT-UA-CHI-UA-HOU/
SAT/AUS/IND/MLI/TUL/OKC/LNK/ICT/CID/
DFW/COS/MKE/MSN/STL/MKC/DSM/OMA/MSP-
OR VIA UA-MIA/TPA/ORL/ATL/MSY-
OR VIA UA-SYR/IND/CMH/DAY/DTT/CLE/
CLT-UA-CHI-UA-HOU/SAT/AUS/IND/MLI/TUL/

That's what expedia gives - now... how do I trip all of that into the most effective MR? Also if anyone knows how I could modify it to fit the paramaters of the Faremetrics Route Expander, it would help out a lot too?

This is my first time trying this and the best I've been able to do is BOS-CLT-BDL-ORD-SJC. To my understanding you can only use one FROM, one VIA, one TO

From:
ROUTING 35 FROM BOS-UA-NYC-UA-WAS-
OR FROM BOS-UA-WAS-UA-EWR/NYC-
OR FROM BOS-UA-EWR/NYC-UA-WAS-
OR FROM BOS-UA-CLT-UA-PHL-UA-WAS-
Via:
UA-ORF/PHF/RDU/GSO/HFD/BDL/
CRW/CAK/RIC/ROA/HAR/ABE/ALB-UA-CHI-UA-
HOU/SAT/AUS/IND/MLI/TUL/OKC/LNK/ICT/
CID/DFW/COS/MKE/MSN/STL/MKC/DSM/OMA/
MSP-
To: San Jose

it would be BOS-CLT-BDL-CHI-DFW-SJC but since the fare rules only allow for 4 segments I needed to trim one and I was under the impression that you could skip steps if they weren't needed. Indeed ITA lets me drow the DFW but skipping ORD would lead to a more effective MR. Can anyone take the time to explain why I can't skip ORD? And if possible suggest a better routing.

The other thing is that I'm unadble to get any other routing through CLT, when I try BOS-CLT-BUF/ROC/IAD/JFK-CHI-SJC it won't work despite almost identical routings... is there something I'm missing as to why BDL is the only working one?

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